{"id":45375,"date":"2025-08-05T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45375\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:34:23","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-dan-sheehan-receives-four-match-ban-for-clearout-in-third-test-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45375\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions: Dan Sheehan receives four-match ban for clearout in third Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooker Dan Sheehan has been banned for four matches, which will be reduced to three if he completes World Rugby’s coaching intervention, for a “reckless” clearout in the British and Irish Lions’ final Test defeat by Australia.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 26-year-old was cited post-game for a first-half clearout that appeared to make contact with the head of Australia fly-half Tom Lynagh.<\/p>\n

Lynagh, 22, later left the field after failing a head injury assessment, but the incident was not looked at by officials.<\/p>\n

World Rugby deemed that his actions were “reckless” and went against the law that relates to charging into a ruck or maul.<\/p>\n

Leinster’s Sheehan, if he completes the coaching intervention, will miss a pre-season game against Cardiff and two United Rugby Championship matches against South African sides Stormers and Sharks.<\/p>\n

He would then be available to play again on 18 October against Irish rivals Munster.<\/p>\n

Sheehan scored a try in the Lions’ dramatic second Test victory at Melbourne Cricket Ground<\/a> and was one of the standout performers on tour, captaining the side when Maro Itoje left the field on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The hooker would have likely been rested for the early United Rugby Championship games because of his involvement in Australia.<\/p>\n

The Wallabies’ victory in Sydney prevented the tourists from securing a 3-0 series whitewash for the first time since 1927 in Argentina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hooker Dan Sheehan has been banned for four matches, which will be reduced to three if he completes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-45375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}